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Razon · #9 Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2012 7:46 am

It seems that there was a lot of internal conflict between the development team. It mostly stemmed from the lead developer who also caused a load of trouble with the DRM on the Alpha Release, which was falsely setting off virus scanners and caused a load of trouble. You can read all about it here and here.

Unfortunately it's Game Over for the Sonic 2 HD project, as of yesterday it was Officially Cancelled.
http://sonic2hd.blogspot.com/2012/04/sonic-2-hd-officially-discontinued.html
https://www.facebook.com/sonic2hd#!/sonic2hd/posts/363422460361647

I originally thought that there was hope that this game would be finished when I came across it, the fact that the updates slowed to a crawl was a red flag though, and now we finally know why the progress came to a halt.

When it comes down to it, even big companies cancel games, and the actual completion ratio for fan projects is really low. So I suppose that this was the expected outcome, of course you always want to hold out hope that the games will actually be finished and not end like this. On the bright side we at least got the alpha demo for it, and a nice sample of the soundtrack.

The other big sonic fan project Sonic Fan Remix went on development hiatus last year, so that game is basically as good as cancelled too. If you haven't seen it then you can check it out here. http://www.sonicfanremix.com/